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120 mm practice bomb M63
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament All 120 mm smoothbore mortars. Development Developed by Yugoimport SDPR to provide a training aid for the 120 mm mortar. Description This is actually a subcalibre device rather than a projectile. It consists of a steel body, with fins the same size as the standard HE bomb. A central hole passes through this body from nose to tail. In the tail end is a propulsion cartridge. Inserted into the nose is a subprojectile, a small bomb with flexible fins wrapped around its tailboom, which has an impact fuze and a
small spotting charge. The complete `bomb' is drop loaded into the mortar in the usual manner. The propulsion cartridge is exploded by the firing pin and fires the subprojectile from the central tube to a maximum range of 500 m. The gas pressure also takes effect upon the bomb body and ejects this from the muzzle at low speed, to fall some 4 to 6 m in front of the mortar. It can then be picked up, recharged with a fresh subcalibre bomb and propulsion cartridge and fired again. Manufacturer Yugoimport SDPR.